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  1. What Does A Travelling Single Mum Look Like?

    Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 8 July 2011

    Travelling as a single parent, there generally aren’t that many photos of you. The pic above is one of few with me and Z together, and there’s hardly any of...

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  2. Update from the Field: Social Quirks, Justin Bieber + Lots of Carbs

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 28 March 2011

    Compiled by Alexis Ditkowsky, KF14, South Africa While it may have been a slower "official" news week than usual, I can assure you that the Fellows are keeping busy. One Fellow spent hours searching fruitlessly for borrowers in the jungle, another has been suffering from serious gastrointestinal issues (aren't you glad he didn't post about that?), and the rest of us have been plotting something very special for the end of the week.

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  3. Day 699: The Ende of All Things

    Blog: The Odyssey Expedition - 3 December 2010

    29.11.10: So the ferry pulled into Larantuka port nice and early, around 7am.  Now I just had the small matter of the entirety of Flores to get across.  Cast from your mind any concept of nice straight Roman roads – this is a volcanic jungle baby, and these roads are longer and windier than you would [...]

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  4. TLM… hotter than an Indonesian rap song!

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 6 August 2009

    by Cissy DeLuca, KF8, Indonesia When most people think of Indonesia, the first places that usually come to mind are Bali and Jakarta. West Timor may be the last place a person associates with Indonesia. West Timor is part of the NTT province, which is the poorest in Indonesia. That means the people of this area [...]

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  5. Welcome, Kiva, to West Timor!

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 6 April 2009

    West Timor is the country equivalent of Robert Downey Senior. The usual reaction is “West Timor? I didn’t know there was a West Timor. But I’ve heard of East Timor so I suppose it makes sense”. And indeed it does make sense, especially if you live here. West Timor, formerly a Dutch colony until it was [...]

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